Read about what housing researchers, tenant lawyers, and radical thinkers are saying about Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City, out June 16 from @btlbooks.com btlbooks.com/book/renovic...

Out now! Action-packed and beautifully illustrated, Blood on the Snow uncovers this little-known episode in labour history when workers divided resulted in tragedy. Learn more: btlbooks.com/book/blood-o... #GraphicHistory #ReesorSiding #NorthernOntario #Labour #Workers

The mayor's repeated announcements about 500 Dawes Road send the message that it is an isolated incident when in reality unacceptable conditions are widespread and go unaddressed in renter districts

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Roncesvalles renoviction: naturopathic landlords, a TikTok influencer, lawyer's letters, and two tenant families who won't back down www.torontotoday.ca/local/real-e...

Check out the May 1 sale @btlbooks.com and get 30% off your pre-order of Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City

My book is now available online for those of you who have institutional access to such things brill.com/display/titl...

Showed the new Parkdale Legal Clinic student caseworkers around the neighbourhood and ran into Kim from 12 Lansdowne who schooled us on the fight against renoviction at her building a few years back

“We won’t give up,” warns Luz Flores. Like her, about thirty tenants at 75 Spencer Avenue in Parkdale, in Toronto’s west end, have stopped paying their rent since March 1st. They are protesting a rent increase they consider excessive. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/224...

"Bourgette’s situation is part of a broader dispute at 388 Roncesvalles Avenue, where tenants are at odds with the building’s owners — who also own and operate Bloom Health Clinic on the ground floor — over eviction notices and the future of the property." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

My book on renovictions, co-authored with Philip Zigman, is now available for pre-order: btlbooks.com/book/renovic... The book looks at how and why landlords renovict tenants and how tenants have organized to fight back and keep their homes

Beating renoviction at the LTB on a technicality is a short-term reprieve—landlords can simply issue new eviction notices. Only confrontational tenant organizing that raises the social and financial costs of pursuing renoviction disciplines landlords lfpress.com/news/local-n...

One 75 Spencer resident whose child attends school in Parkdale, Lobsang Nyima, said he has lived in the building for 15 years. He is on rent strike and faces eviction, he said, but his reason for striking is “easy” — “We don’t have enough money to pay (the AGI).” www.thestar.com/news/gta/why...

In case you missed it: The TDSB’s use of untrained “emergency replacement people” has increased by a staggering 1,152 percent since the pandemic. These are the schools using them most.

Teachers and students from DRCKM and Parkdale Public School, along with 75 Spencer rent strikers and supporters from the neighbourhood, rallied in the rain to show their support for the rent strike at 75 Spencer set to enter its second month parkdaleorganize.ca/2026/03/27/p...

Newly declassified RCMP Security Service files of nearly 6,000 pages (!)show how Canada and Liberal govt infiltrated & sought to disrupt Indigenous organizations in 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, wiretapping, informants and countersubversion. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Teachers supporting rent striking tenants, their students' families among the rent strikers, is a positive development for working-class politics in our city

A group of teachers in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood are rallying in support of tenants on rent strikes, citing concerns about the impact of potential above-guideline rent increases on students. #Parkdale #Toronto nowtoronto.com/news/parkdal...

Last week, members of Toronto Police Services pounded on tenants’ doors at 75 Spencer. Police targeted tenants who returned N4 eviction notices to Metcap property manager Fjoralba Jano’s mailbox. parkdaleorganize.ca/2026/03/23/t...

Landlords use the social power of money, along with other extra-legal and legal tactics, to renovict tenants. When tenants accept buyouts, landlords profit and tenants' often end up living under worse conditions www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Chanting “Stop the rent hike,” dozens of tenants at an apartment building in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood launched a rent strike on Sunday afternoon. MetCap Living, along with the property’s owner Kin Pong Chung, are seeking to up the rent by 5.4 per cent. youtu.be/JhBWmlY-D3U?...

Tenants at a Toronto apartment building have officially launched a rent strike in response to their landlord’s request for an above-guideline rent increase totalling 5.4 per cent. #Toronto #Parkdale nowtoronto.com/news/its-not...

Parkdale tenants launch rent strike over 5.4% hike. #Toronto #Parkdale

‘We fight until the end’: Parkdale tenants launch rent strike as landlord seeks significant increase

Parkdale tenants are keeping working-class self-organization and direct confrontation with class enemies on the agenda

Tenants at 75 Spencer will begin their rent strike on March 1. Luz Flores, who lives at 75 Spencer, said tenants cannot afford a 5.4 per cent increase. “We’re going through with withholding the rent payment until MetCap withdraws." www.cp24.com/local/toront...

This framing might leave one with the impression that tenants generate the most emissions, when in fact the building category includes commercial and industrial buildings, and the industrial category excludes industrial building emissions

A five-song demo that attempts to make its own way, drawing from a deep well of musical influences, while still respecting convention. Bleak, yet hopeful. Harsh, but catchy and melodic. For better or worse, Entroper walks its own path. entroper1.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-...

Faced with questions about the thousands of eviction applications they file, these landlords used to respond that it is not their job to house low-income people. Now, they just deny that eviction filings are evictions at all

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Me and Mary Robertson in @ripejournal.bsky.social articulating a Marxist perspective on race, racialisation and subprime in a special issue on Raced Finance expertly co-edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social @alibhagat.bsky.social @vincentguermond.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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My band Entroper released our first song entroper1.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-...

"Israel demolishes east Jerusalem building, evicting Palestinians"

Toronto Housing issues eviction notices to hundreds of Parkdale tenants. There is a troubling silence surrounding Toronto Community Housing Corporation’s (TCHC) “relocation” of hundreds of Parkdale tenants from the 144-unit building at 300 Dufferin parkdaleorganize.ca/2025/12/12/tor…

Is The Temporary Foreign Worker Program working? We asked 4 Tim Hortons franchise owners, and one slum landlord

New #LongRead by Anushka Dasgupta Dwelling-in-eviction: Improvised practices of inhabiting Dublin’s private rental sector Read the full text in #openacess: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/dwellin... #LongRead #Eviction #HousingPrecarity #Improvisation #Overholding #UrbanStudies #HousingJustice

#OtD 4 Dec 1969 Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton was murdered while asleep in his bed during a raid on his apartment by Chicago Police in conjunction with the FBI. Mark Clark was also killed, and other Panthers wounded. Learn more about the BPP: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Even more so, I hope that it can inspire tenant activists of today to see themselves as part of a long historical tradition and to reflect upon past experiences. uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...

"Too often, the expropriation of land that made capitalist production possible and the separation of producers from their means of subsistence are depicted as consecutive rather than intertwined moments of a single historical process." canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

I wrote about how the proposed changes to Ontario's eviction rules are a state response to rent strikes in Toronto that undermine tenant organizing ricochet.media/justice/hous...

Doug Ford’s war on tenants: Ontario’s new housing bill is a gift to corporate landlords — and a warning shot at the rent strikers and organizers who dared to fight back. New from @colewebber.bsky.social: ricochet.media/justice/hous... #HousingIsAHumanRight #onpoli